Just updated to the latest unstable version of gossip. As usual, @npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c is crushing it. It's so fast and pretty now.
Very cool to log in to Nostr to discover its birthday. I'd probably have missed this if I wasn't doing #NostrNovember. I'm really glad Nostr is a thing. Like Bitcoin, it's the Plan B.
BTW, if there's anyone I should follow, or if I haven't followed you back, be sure to let me know.
Bitcoin, the idea, is 15 years old today.
New technology like the printing press is one thing that contributed to the Protestant Reformation that democratized education and literacy across Europe. That's likely also why Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper on 10/31/2008-- A reference to the day Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses against the church, 491 years prior. Both used technology to challenge the dominant power structures of the time; books and bibles against the church, and software and cryptography against the banks.
It'd be so ironic if we met aliens and started learning about their cultures and the ones that lasted millions of years were the ones using sound money, practicing individual responsibility, freedom of speech, and the right to self defense, refusing plastic and eating red meat...
We are living in a system of monetary socialism that privatizes gains to those who least need them and socializes losses to those who can least afford them.
Support the automation of the jobs of bankers by buying and using #Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a meritocracy of virtuous incentives built on a solid foundation of conservative, antifragile principles. It just draws all the good things into it; and rejects the bad things. It's a good filter to view the world through. If it comes to Bitcoin, it must have merit.